Soil CO2 efflux responses to soil loss on two rangeland ecosystems

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-34

  Thorne, Mark S ^a,c   Trlica, M J ^b   Leininger, Wayne C ^b   Child, R Dennis ^b   Klein, Donald A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c Kamuela Extension Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Bare soil respiration; Plant respiration; Sagebrush steppe; Shortgrass prairie; Total respiration rates

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUX; DISTURBANCE; RANGELAND;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA;

EID: 22744457004     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/1551-5028(2005)58<27:SCERTS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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